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JD Power in 2017 rated the 3-year dependability of the Range Rover Sport higher than the Acura MDX and Audi Q7. Among luxury car buyers, the most common complaint by far is for infotainment. If you happen to travel a lot and find yourself in different vehicles across a range of automakers...

https://jalopnik.com/lets-celebrate-the-50th-birthday-of-americas-worst-tax-977715943 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/the-strange-case-of-fords-attempt-to-avoid-thechicken-tax/2018/07/06/643624fa-796a-11e8-8df3-007495a78738_story.html?utm_term=.54f94ad4ec56 OBTW, China has had...

The Range Rover Sport HST has a different setup. It's got the Ingenium Inline-6 gas engine with a 48-volt electrical system, electric supercharger, and an electric generator-motor connected to the drivetrain via a belt. Technically it's more of a mild hybrid / KERS and I guess it mostly kicks...

In Yosemite NP, Rangers haze bears in the Valley with Karelian Bear Dogs and shotguns loaded with bean bags. They don't relocate them because once habituated they just come back or find the nearest dumpster to dive in. The oldest bears in Yosemite have learned to recognize coolers by sight and...

That would be great, just haven't seen any evidence of it yet. 300hp / 500lb-ft would be perfect for the Discovery, should move the D110 quite nicely as well.

The Ingenium straight 6 is gas/petrol. As far as I can tell there have been no inline 6 diesels demo'd or tested in the Defender, but an inline 6 turbodiesel Ingenium has been rumored for some time.

If you're talking about the F150, you're wrong on all counts. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a14773081/2018-ford-f-150-diesel-full-details-news/ You don't need a 6.7L V8 turbodiesel for a Land Rover any more than you need one for a Jeep.

Actually, Ford's "Powerstroke" diesel is exactly the TdV6 diesel used in Land Rovers, but with a reinforced crank and maybe one other change to give it a tow rating of over 10,000 lbs. That engine is a joint venture between Pugeot and Ford and has been used in various incarnations in Europe for...

Electrolysis can be used to create hydrogen and oxygen, but the bulk of industrial hydrogen today is produced as a byproduct of natural gas extraction. Additionally, fresh water is already becoming a precious resource, and it's not clear what the plan is, if any, to store or use the excess...

The D5 has both lockers and TC - no reason to expect the Defender won't as well.

I can manually control mine with Terrain Response 2. I can lock the center diff with a button. Didn't get the locking rear diff option as I would have had to go up a level and sacrifice payload with the folding 3rd row and lose the full sized spare.

They were explicitly comparing the old Defender and the technology available in modern Range Rovers. As he states in the article, "... But while this new model will reference the old with some design elements, key details also reveal a vehicle that couldn’t be more different than the old one...

This is exactly what they are exploring in their focus groups. SOTA is highly desired - why should I have to go to the dealer? As long as you come to me if/when it gets bricked with a loaner. UK Disco 5's are getting SOTA infotainment updates. Hasn't been enabled for NAS market yet. As far...

Ah, good, the one technology with even less infrastructure and worse carbon footprint (due to production as a byproduct from natural gas extraction) than batteries. It's a press ploy, as any hydrogen fuel cell research these days ultimately is.

That didn't work out so well the last time under BMW ownership. Hopefully that and the V8 BMW is going to supply will be better this time around.

I don't see why they wouldn't offer a utility D90 version in the $35-45K range. It will cannibalize sales from the Disco Sport but it creates a gateway vehicle into the brand and it absolutely will eat into Jeep sales. Start there, then grow into a 7-seat D110 when the family appears. It's a...

It's got a snorkel in Africa....

Description of the Euro NCAP one-star rating for the Wrangler: "Although the Wrangler earned a top score in the side barrier test and was rated Good for whiplash protection, it did not do well in the frontal crash tests. In its comments, Euro NCAP indicated that the Wrangler provided only...

China is being hit hard by the trade war - their economy is, well, still something of a paper tiger. Foreign vehicles in China are tariffed at around 25%; Buicks there are equivalent in affordability there to S-class Mercs here. This is for two reasons - one, protectionism for the domestic...